Bayer, P. (2022) Replication Data for: Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms. [Data Collection]

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A central claim in the environmental regulation literature is that, in a globalized world economy, governments are willing to offer favorable regulation to firms that threaten to move their operations abroad. This logic however overlooks that firms' relocation threats are not equally credible. Focusing on variation in ownership structure, I argue that, even among generally mobile multinational corporations (MNCs), their foreign operations are more credibly movable, and hence more favorably regulated, than their operations at home. MNCs' country-specific investments into the economy and politics of their home markets drive this difference in relative mobility. An empirical analysis that relies on within-firm variation in ownership of MNCs' production sites across European countries and original plant-level carbon regulation data strongly support my argument: foreign ownership becomes an asset for favorable regulation. These findings highlight the need to account for mobility differences among multinational firms. (2022-10-10)

College / School:	College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2023 10:07
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URI:	https://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1532
Additional details Additional details Type of data: Mixed Date: 15 November 2022 Date type: Publication Resource language: English Status: Published Data Publisher: Harvard Dataverse Last Modified: 14 Nov 2023 10:46

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